"He had breasts. Not large ones. Small breasts, like a flat-chested woman temporarily swollen with milk. Then with his red beard, his face of a sunburnt forty-five-year-old man, stern-visaged, long-nosed, thin-lipped, he began to nurse. The baby stopped wailing and sucked greedily." -Marge Piercy, from "Woman on the Edge of Time" (p. 134)

22 August 2006

WAR STATS FROM THE BBC

As Lenin's Tomb points out, "I am staggered that the 'multi-national forces' would simply release these figures, since they blatantly undermine everything that they have said about the resistance." Think about all the excuses the prowar people have given you -- "we're there to prevent more violence" and all that...